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Will Tables affect Performance...?

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April 30, 2012 at 7:11 am

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Hi Guys,
I have a doubt will creation more Tables affect the performance of the Database.
Say i have a table in the Below Structure containing few data in a single table.
ID Code Value
1 CU India
2 CU U.S.S
3 CU Germany
4 CU England
5 CU Russia
6 CU Iraq
7 CP Apple
8 CP Google
9 CP IBM
10 CP Microsoft
11 CP Facebook
12 CP Amazon
13 SP Tennis
14 SP Soccer
15 SP Rugby
16 SP Cricket
17 SP Snooker
18 SP Hockey
19 SP Shooting
20 SP Boxing
If i split the Records of each Code in a single Table will it reduce the performance.
Table 1
ID Code Name
1 CU India
2 CU U.S.S
3 CU Germany
4 CU England
5 CU Russia
6 CU Iraq
Table 2
ID Code Name
1 CP Apple
2 CP Google
3 CP IBM
4 CP Microsoft
5 CP Facebook
6 CP Amazon
Table 3
ID Code Name
13 SP Tennis
14 SP Soccer
15 SP Rugby
16 SP Cricket
17 SP Snooker
18 SP Hockey
19 SP Shooting
20 SP Boxing
Say i have some 1000 Codes will it be better to have all of them in a single Table or to have them in 1000 Separate Table...
Please help me in understanding it...
Thanks in Advance.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 1

Nothing to do with performance.

Your first design is what's called 'The One Lookup Table' design, and it's usually a complete disaster. With that design it's all too easy for data to get mangled and for things like Country of Cricket and sport of England to find their way into the database (and don't say the app will handle that, heard that before and cleaned up the mess afterwards)

Tables should contain one thing and one thing only, not an amalgamated collection of multiple unrelated objects

Gail Shaw
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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 2

-edit: just saw Gail identified your logic as an Entiry-value table, and not a single table of similar values.

~~single table for sure.~~

That's a basic premise of normalization of your data: you keep data that is the same together.

the key to performance here is going to be putting a proper index(or indexes) ont the table based on how it gets searched with a WHERE statement.

so if that table gets searched via a WHERe statement by NAME='India', for example, you want an index on that, if it seems to be unique enough.

Lowell

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PaulB-TheOneAndOnly SSC Guru Points: 66772 More actions · Answer 3

I'm not a fan of this kind of generic lookup tables - I would create a table for each one of the "codes" you have to describe.

Doing it properly e.g. as many "code" tables as needed - will not have a negative effect on performance and will make you design more elegant and easy to maintain.

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ard5karthick SSCommitted Points: 1603 More actions · Answer 4

ard5karthick

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May 2, 2012 at 12:34 am

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Hi Guys,

Thanks for the reply.

Was help full...